该电影由罗伯特·奥尔德里奇执导，伯特·兰卡斯特、约瑟夫·科顿、茂文·道格拉斯等主演，于1977年上映。在115分钟的叙事中，《美国最后之日》（又名：夕阳余晖、最后警告）A renegade USAF general, Lawrence Dell, escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo near Montana and threatens to provoke World War 3 unless the President reveals details of a secret meeting held just after the start of the Vietnam War between Dell and the then President’s most trusted advisors.